US5551074A - Balanced reflection transformer - Google Patents
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US08/574,071 US5752181A (en) | 1991-03-12 | 1995-12-18 | Method and apparatus for reducing inermodulation distortion in a mixer |
US08/926,175 US6064872A (en) | 1991-03-12 | 1997-09-09 | Totem pole mixer having grounded serially connected stacked FET pair |
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US6064872A (en) * | 1991-03-12 | 2000-05-16 | Watkins-Johnson Company | Totem pole mixer having grounded serially connected stacked FET pair |
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US5732345A (en) * | 1995-12-20 | 1998-03-24 | Watkins-Johnson Company | Quasi-double balanced dual-transformer dual FET mixer, which achieves better isolation by using a first and second diplexer, and a transmission line RF balun |
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